Meteorological, Hydrological and Oceanographic Database

  • ID:
    sensing-meteo-26
  • Source Organisation:
    C3S-CDS
  • Name:
    Precipitation monthly and daily gridded data from 1979 to present derived from satellite measurements
  • Type:
    data (format: NetCDF-4)
  • Area:
    climate data
  • Quality:
    https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-precipitation?tab=documentation
  • Availability:
    Open, to be requested
  • Update frequency:
    Quarterly
  • Legal restrictions:
    None
  • Description:
    Precipitation estimates from the analysis of the Global PRecipitation Climatology Project (GPCP).
  • Variable(s):
    Precipitation
  • Spatial coverage:
    Global
  • Spatial resolution:
    1° (daily), 2.5° (monthly)
  • Temporal coverage:
    1996-present (daily), 1979-present (monthly)
  • Temporal resolution:
    monthly, daily
  • Resource:
    https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-precipitation?tab=overview
  • API Protocol:
    https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/how-to-api